Research areas
Research in the Department of Computer Science
Computing education research and educational technology
Computer science, psychology, and education.
Computing education research (CER) contributes scientific knowledge about the learning and teaching of computer programming and other areas of computing education; develops software tools, pedagogies, and theoretical models to help computing students and teachers; and evaluates such tools, pedagogies, and models empirically.
CER is an interdisciplinary field at the cross-section of computer science, psychology, and education.
We develop and apply educational technology, learning analytics and educational data mining to improve computing education as well as other fields of education.
Research topics: Computing education research, learning analytics, educational technology.
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Computing education, educational technology and software visualization.
Latest publications
Time-constrained Code Recall Tasks for Monitoring the Development of Programming Plans
Ava Heinonen, Arto Hellas
2023
SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Automated Questionnaires About Students’ JavaScript Programs: Towards Gauging Novice Programming Processes
Teemu Lehtinen, Lassi Haaranen, Juho Leinonen
2023
Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference
Development and Use of Domain-Specific Learning Theories, Models and Instruments in Computing Education
Lauri Malmi, Judy Sheard, Päivi Kinnunen, Jane Sinclair
2023
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Editorial for the Second Special Issue on “Conceptualizing and Using Theory in Computing Education Research”
Lauri Malmi, Josh Tenenberg
2023
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Reflections on Theory
Lauri Malmi
2023
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Experiences from Learnersourcing SQL Exercises: Do They Cover Course Topics and Do Students Use Them?
Nea Pirttinen, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen
2023
ACE 2023 - Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference, Held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week
Lessons Learned From Four Computing Education Crowdsourcing Systems
Nea Pirttinen, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen
2023
IEEE Access
Virtual Reality Childbirth Education With 360° Videos
Marjaana Siivola, Eero Tiainen, Eeva Ekholm, Teemu Leinonen, Lauri Malmi
2023
Journal of Perinatal Education
A Study of Worked Examples for SQL Programming
Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Ryan Hardt, Jordan Barria-Pineda, Peter Brusilovsky, Kerttu Pollari-Malmi, Teemu Sirkiä, Lauri Malmi
2022
ITiCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
From a National Meeting to an International Conference
Mikko Apiola, Sonsoles Lopez-Pernas, Mohammed Saqr, Arnold Pears, Mats Daniels, Lauri Malmi, Matti Tedre
2022
IEEE Access
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